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Texas voters will not be able to select every candidate of a major political party with one punch, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, upholding a 2017 state law that ends the popular practice of straight-ticket voting for this year’s general election.
The Texas Legislature acted years ago to end straight-ticket voting in time for the 2020 presidential contest, but a federal judge reinstated the practice earlier this month, citing complications to the voting process caused by the pandemic.
A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that decision Wednesday, ruling that the law ending the one-punch option should go into effect even as voters and election administrators contend with the coronavirus pandemic, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s “emphasis that courts should not alter election rules on the eve of an election.”
“The Texas Legislature passed HB 25 in 2017, and state election officials have planned for this election accordingly. The state election machinery is already well in motion,” the judges wrote. Upholding the law and eliminating straight-ticket voting, they wrote, “will minimize confusion among both voters and trained election officials.”
The Obama judge wrote an activist opinion. Among other things, she citied the increased chance of catching the coronavirus as justification for her decision. The only problem is that such a justification exists nowhere in law. That "judge" made what she thought was a good policy decision, but the problem is that she is not appointed to make such policy decisions.
Do you not understand the concept of legislating from the bench? It is the opposite of what happened here. What the the 5th Circuit did was support legislation from the (gasp) elected legislators.
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I do not understand why it is considered too difficult for some people to go through the ballot using the voting machine and select the candidate that they prefer for each race. Even in Harris County, which has the longest ballot in the state, this need not take more than about two minutes, and that is if you take your time.
I do not understand why it is considered too difficult for some people to go through the ballot using the voting machine and select the candidate that they prefer for each race. Even in Harris County, which has the longest ballot in the state, this need not take more than about two minutes, and that is if you take your time.
The problem I have with straight ticket voting is that it encourages laziness. For a process as serious as voting in a democratic society, we should not be encouraging such.
Where da hell do you get these trolling ideas. A particular disease, virus occurrence as justification is in the policy sphere, having nothing to do with the law.
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5th Circuit legislating from the bench
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